The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 16-1 today in favor of the appointment of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Hillary Clinton still must be confirmed by the full Senate however, the confirmation is expected to be a formality at this point. The lone negative vote from the Senate FRC panel against Clinton came from Louisisan Republican Sen. David Vitter, “a one-time client of the infamous DC Madam.” Senate John Kerry, the incoming chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee released the following...
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Media Headquarters Bombed In Gaza…refugee food warehouse destroyed
This is a direct report from the spot. One fact that stands out from this report is that they believe that over 1,000 people have now been killed in the Gaza conflict. Sphere: Related Content
World Class Clueless
They don’t get it. That’s not news, of course. JUST how much it’s not news is telling, but one has to take a moment to appreciate just how clueless that it’s possible to be, and still occupy a responsible position in civil society. Irresponsibly, of course. Listen to this Bizarro World version of an error, a mistake and a mea culpa (which, horrifying to tell, is also an old Latin slang pun phrase I’m a c-word, used as an...
The Idiotic Bigotry of Ken Blackwell
Well, you could pick any of the contenders for the RNC gig — the wackos who are trying to out-Reagan, out-gun, out-Facebook, and out-Twitter each other, all while yukking it up over “Barack the Magic Negro” racism, but the craziest today is Ken Blackwell, he of dubious election administering in Ohio, for spewing the usual right-wing anti-gay rhetoric in his own special way back in September: I believe homosexuality is a compulsion that can be contained, repressed or changed,...
Natural Sciences (and Un-)
Galileo pointed his telescope at Jupiter and discovered four moons. Had it happened in the here and now, we could bank that Michelle Malkin would sneer at Galileo and his new-fangled and untrustworthy device. Newsbusters would point out that the Universe was perfect and that there couldn’t be any moons around Jupiter; Sean Hannity would growl that the moons were just a result of fuzzy liberal thinking, Rush Limbaugh would claim that it was the Clintons’ fault, and Ann...
Hillary’s Freudian Slip
Via Politico. Sphere: Related Content
Breaking Bread
President Elect Barack Obama broke bread last night with a group pf conservative pundits at George Will’s home. Among the pundits reported to have partaked in the bread breaking were the “Weekly Standard’s William Kristol, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post.” Sam Stein of the HuffPo reminds us that Obama “has pledged to be a uniter once in office.” He’s also said he is willing to take policy suggestions from any source,...
Statement of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Nominee for Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton, President-Elect Barack Obama’s designee to be Secretary of State Senator, met with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today for her confirmation hearing. She released the following statement at the hearing today: The full text as prepared is below: Sphere: Related Content
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